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Junior pet vets

By The Denver Post

Posted:
06/03/2012 01:00:00 AM MDT

Updated:
06/03/2012 03:46:09 AM MDT

(The Denver Post)

Even if the family pet can't come along on the trip, or even if there is no family pet, the kids (ages 4 and up) will enjoy making feel all better the little animals that populate Playmobil's Take Along Pet Clinic. The company's popular play sets open on hinges, revealing a kind of stage set on the particular theme. In this case, there's a fully furnished and decorated two-story dollhouse-like pet clinic, complete with an exam room, toy surgical equipment and monitors, recovery cages and medicine holders. "Patients" include puppies, kittens and a bunny. The set includes a uniformed vet and lab technician and a mom and kid visiting with their wounded kitty. Of course, children can add whatever other little creatures and people they like. All the pieces stash inside the "clinic," which latches shut and has a carry handle.

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